On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:17:54 -0700, "Tom"
comcast.net> wrote:
>
>"marques de sade"
netscape.net> wrote in message
>news:482a09a0.122577032@news.sysmatrix.net...>> Every time we see on the news all these pedophiles, and they're
>> all connected to religion in some way.
>
>Well, for one thing, the cases you see on the news are only the most
>sanitary and controversial of the incidents. Fit to print, as it were.
>Further, they are the most sensational from a social interest point of view,
>such as when a supposedly trustworthy or glamorous figure is exposed. This
>would include religious, educational, or political figures, as well as the
>occasional pop star.
>
>The vast majority of pedophile activity is tawdry, revolting, and ugly, not
>at all like the cases you see on TV, which are merely shocking and
>salacious. People don't want to know about it in detail on the nightly
>news. Most would prefer not to know about it at all. So, if you are
>relying on the public news broadcasts, you are getting a very skewed picture
>of the situation.
>
>
well, if there is activity that you know about that is so common
and the media is totally ignoring it, then there is something
wrong there... they're supposed to report the facts, and be
totally objective about it...
if they're skewing the picture on purpose, then that's fucked up.
if it's unintentional, it's still fucked up but i'm not as
upset... but something should be done to fix it...
--
`We come now to the idea of the Gaeia Universe, where the whole of the Universe would be a single living entity of which all mankind is barely an organelle. But unlike the organisms of Earth, the elements of the Universe, energy and matter, are not connected by the bloody and battering interaction of consumption that we experience on Earth, but by the same forces of physics and mechanics which govern the aforementioned astronomical principles. The concept of pantheism proposes an additional connection, one of an overarching divine presence. In this divinity, mind and matter are one, and all things in the Universe are evenly connected'' --B.D. Abramson
